Thursday, February 12, 2009

In a Holding Pattern

When I started this blog, my husband told me the two rules of blogging. One, keep your posts short, and two, blog often. A blog is like a shark. If it doesn't keep moving, it will die. Unfortunately, this blog has died many many deaths.

Last week we visited Chad's doctor to learn that Chad is exactly the same. Too sick to work and too healthy to be at the top of the transplant list. While sitting in the waiting room, a man struck up a conversation with Chad. He is a professor at BYU Idaho and had the same disease as Chad. He waited a year for a liver transplant and told us that he felt better immediately after waking from the surgery. It was so encouraging to hear of his success. We've kept in touch with him and are grateful that his family is willing to share their experience with us.

You know those cell phone kiosks in the middle of the mall? With those annoying guys that shout at you as you walk by? Chad needed to get a new watch battery, so as we passed one of those kiosks one guy shouted at Chad "What's the matter with you? Are you sick?" Chad shouted back "Yeah, I need a new liver. You got one?"

6 comments:

Are You Serious! said...

♥ How completely rude of that punk but Chad cracks me up with his response! So... where is a picture of that baby of yours??? :)

kate said...

ha ha! good work chad. i love when those guys try to get me to stop when i'm obviously pregnant and have two whining children hanging on my arms. yeah mister, i have time for your sales pitch. glad you found someone to talk to and good to hear the post surgery prognosis is good. now lets get that man of yours a liver!

Gayle said...

I am the same way with my blog ... it has been reborn over and over.

How rude! Some people are so insensitive! Chad's come back was great!

Home of the Muddy Kids said...

What a great guy to handle that so gracefully. Wit is a precious gift. I'm hoping for some for my birthday.

Megan said...

Please tell me the name of that Kiosk so I can tell the guy's supervisor. Seriously, those guys are SO RUDE, yelling at all passersby. What a great way to try to get people to purchase your product! I'm so sorry about "some people's kids"!

The Wife said...

I am sorry things are not moving along quicker. But I am glad to hear your lives might get back to normal once the procedure has actually taken place. We'll keep you in our prayers!